In larger plants, regardless of industry, downstream resource availability can become an important constraint in scheduling. For example, you may have 10 production lines that all perform the same function, and 15 packaging lines that can all potentially package the same finished good. However, due to the plant layout, material coming off Production Line 1 [...]
Often one of the key goals a client has in implementing an Advanced Planning and Scheduling tool is to automate the scheduling process as much as possible. Many planners use complicated Excel spreadsheets to schedule their machines and labor while keeping track of multiple constraints in their head. PlanetTogether contains many features that help model these constraints [...]